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American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd Spectacular Violence Debbie Lelekis LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2015byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Lelekis,Debbie. Americanliterature,lynching,andthespectatorinthecrowd:spectacularviolence/DebbieLelekis. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-1-4985-0635-9(cloth:alk.paper)--ISBN978-1-4985-0636-6(electronic) 1.Americanliterature--20thcentury--Historyandcriticism--Theory,etc.2.Narration(Rhetoric)3. Spectatorsinliterature.4.Pointofview(Literature)I.Title. PS221.L352015 810.9'3552--dc23 2015030942 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ForAngeloandMaia Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix 1 ACriticalIntroduction 1 2 ReportingtheCrowd 23 3 TheFemaleReporterasSpectatorandSpectacle 43 4 ConfrontingtheCrowdandVigilanteViolence 63 5 RecountingtheHorroroftheSpectacle 89 Bibliography 107 Index 113 vii
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